In my senior of high school, I got rid of my acne, virginity and inhibitions. I finished college magna cum laud and then began practicing law. Yes, I am that lawyer that divorces you and makes you wish you were in my name. But for four years now, a legal dilemma turned into an emotional one. This woman is everything and then some. It would appear that I know nothing of her, even though I've divorced her three times. She doesn't ask for anything. She doesn't demand. She doesn't look for anything. But more importantly, why the hell does she not spent the night?
(Translated by Cristina Ioana Bontea / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In June 2022, the group has 8,500 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale.